Video: The Right to Disconnect is NOT Bad for Productivity
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The Right to Disconnect legislation being passed recently has attracted criticism from Opposition leader Peter Dutton and business groups, who say it’s bad for productivity.
They may need to learn some basic maths, because they couldn’t be more wrong.
Centre for Future Work Director Dr Jim Stanford explains.
Research indicates the average Australian worker performs 280 hours of unpaid overtime per year, equating to more than $130 billion across the labour market.
The new legislation’s ‘reasonableness’ test still grants employers great scope to contact workers out of hours when it is genuinely necessary.
Nevertheless, merely affirming that workers don’t need to be on call 24-7, and should be allowed to turn off their devices after work, has sparked loud complaints from old-school guardians of work attitudes.
Read more in this article: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-big-error-at-heart-of-right-to-disconnect-opposition/
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